Why so many warriors?

[Sweetjeff]

I play the warrior class because i like to equip huge two-hand weapons and go rampage in battlegrounds and just fuucking slaughter everyone and everything that moves and just being an overall badass.

[provaporizer]

I find this strange as well.

Warriors are pretty painful to level and at end game, require good gear to be good dps'ers or pvp'ers.

Most of the Warriors I speak to when trying to form a group for 5 mans also avoid tanking...

It's funny, because after most of the instances people praise me for being a good tank. I swear i dont do anything just spam sunder armor from the little rage i usually have. I asked some of them, why would I be a good tank? And they tell stories about tanks not even knowing about threat and such things, and think that a tank is just a dps with shield. So it's funny that people still don't know these after so many years. Oh and I didn't mean to praise my tanking skills with this post, just explain that people usually avoid tanking probably because they suck, or they sucked and the group hated them for it.

I have had a guy tell me the same thing, some warriors just run in and have no idea how to tank, I've seen it on my alt. Its pretty simple if you put in the time to learn it though. Compared to healing (don't let the tank or rogue pulling threat die) and DPs (don't break sheep, hit skull, don't facepull) tanking is definitely the hardest role in vanilla though.

[wiznot]

In response to OP, 20% of characters have to be tanks. And if you want to have fun tanking, you'll most likely roll warr.

It's a bit surprising for people to say that warriors are challenging to play, because I consider nothing to be more involving than warrior play, especially tanking. Tanking is the thing. The lead designers of WoW obviously had an almost ideological image of how the tanking class should play, and the high level of engagement required to play it well. Vanilla is designed around warriors.

Compare Metzen's hunter, which began with no variety and a unusually large focus on roleplaying tokens. I love it, but pet happiness is silly.

[DEDRICK]

I rolled warrior to tank, I always tank. If I don't tank I play a healer

[Airoch]

Unless you are a really good tank who knows his shit and has done it a long time its more frustrating then it is worth it.

Healers healing to early pulling everything 2 seconds after the pull
DPS going full out full out aoe right after the pull
DPS not letting you LOS pull
DPS not following kill order skull -> X
DPS switching targets before skull is dead
DPS or Healer pulling packs / breaking CC's

I had to change my tanking style completely to not full rage mode in every pug. For every 1 elite mob in the pull you should allow 1.5 seconds before you do anything really.

[DEDRICK]

I've tanked for almost 8 years, with every class, Warrior is my favorite of them all. They are so much more involved in Vanilla too but there are changes to warriors that happened in TBC that made them much smoother to play